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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United We Stand'' would not do as a motto for Austria. In fact, during the cabinet crisis of 36 days which ended last week, the four principal parties in the republic battled each other to a standstill so often that it seemed almost time to hang up the D. W. F. sign−"Divided We Fall." Almost every day War Minister Karl Vaugoin stormed that the republic ought to fall, repeatedly demanded proclamation of a dictatorship...
...usual equilibrist act as the bill's opener is excellent, the "death-defying, daredevil climax" really giving us a thrill. Haye and Sayre, the two man dance team are very good as long as they are dancing, but unfortunately they attempt to sing too often...
...fact has not been taken into consideration, namely: the assignment of reading during the reading period. Required reading, covering as often as not, work that formerly was undertaken by the lecturer on the platform, has been in part responsible for the industrious atmosphere of the Reading Room. It has not been possible in every case for the head of the course to slice two periods of two to three weeks each from the accustomed syllabus. It has thus become necessary that the reading period complement the preceding lectures in finishing up the normal demands of the syllabus. What was hailed...
...never made any money, though it is always full, is that Frau Sacher kept house frankly for aristocrats. The Sacher is the only restaurant in Vienna where the double-headed eagle hangs on the dining room walls and the imperial crown is on the porcelain. Loyal Frau Anna often allowed princes and archdukes to stay at Sacher's rent free. No rooms were ever available at Sacher's for tourists whom Frau Anna did not consider sufficiently haut...
France and the Holy Roman Empire (now, roughly, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, pieces of Italy) both were rich, more populous than England with its three million people. He played them off against each other so that they were often seeking England's aid. He launched a new church and designed a wagon to grind corn while it rolled along. He built up the navy, encouraged business, absorbed Wales, pacified (for a few moments) Ireland, weakened hostile Scotland, played the flute, started a book, jousted in the tiltyard, began the great English age that was to be called Elizabethan...